Generally, when you go and rent a car, there's a bunch of fineprint which details what you CAN and CAN'T do with the rental car. Typically, crossing borders will be listed. You can usually cross from the US into Canada without an issue.....trying to cross into Mexico is a big negative. I rented a vehicle in Iceland once, and they listed twenty-odd roads (really rough dirt roads)....which you could NOT drive the vehicle. I worked with a guy who drove a car over the border from Italy into Slovakia and had an accident....which he discovered later that crossing the border could only occur if you asked permission of the rental company.
I bring all this up....because of a little story I read today. Focus reported this story .
Sixt Car Rental has a line in their rental agreement which says....you will NOT disassemble their vehicles. They don't mean the tires or such.....they mean taking the engine apart or removing the doors.
So, this is what happened in this one odd case.
Mercedes is really interested about the Tesla electric car. The thing is.....with so much interest, you ought to go and just buy one and test it out....to find out why Tesla folks like the car.
Yep, so the engineers eventually got around to taking part of it, and disassembling it.
The folks who run the car rental? They kinda noticed this. No one explains that part of the story but I'm guessing that they did a lousy job of putting it back together.
Why didn't Mercedes just go and buy one? That's the part of the story that I don't understand. You would think that the engineers would convince the boss to give them the 75,000 Euro and buy one for their own use.
Damaged? The Sixt folks say it's more than 10,000 Euro of damage. Insurance to pay out? Well, that's something that you would wonder about. Would your insurance even cover an act like this where you took the car apart? I doubt it.
As for Tesla? They have this wonderful moment of publicity available. They could make a simple 30-second commercial that would throw Mercedes off the track and give massive appeal to the public to test-drive the Tesla car.
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